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Machelle Hill
From:Joshua Beach
Sent:Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:10 AM
To:Barbara Shiffer; C.Jay Coles; Charlene Way; Machelle Hill
Subject:FW: Proposed Firenze Plaza
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From: Katie Dastrup [ mailto:katiedastrup@gmail.com ]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 3:22 PM
To: kgoldthorpe@achdidaho.org
Subject: Proposed Firenze Plaza
To whom it may concern,
I live on Mount Etna in Tuscany where this Plaza is proposed to be built. I have 3 children, a 12 year old
daughter, 9 year old son and an 18 month old son. We moved to this neighborhood 2.5 years ago because it is a
family friendly neighborhood where we could let our children ride their bikes to the park and to their friends
homes. We love to be outside and on our street, there are several homes with basketball hoops where the kids
congregate to play together. We specifically bought on this street because we noticed that there were no plans
for there to be a through street, there has never been a sign indicating that there would be a through street like
other streets we have seen in the neighborhood. As a parent you can understand my concern with this Plaza
going in and specifically this proposed street from Eagle Road that connects to Mount Etna, I want my children
to be able to play outside and not have to worry about all that extra traffic that will be diverted down our street.
Eagle road is already very congested and the access into this Plaza from Eagle road will be a nightmare to deal
with. The round a bout can't handle the amount of traffic that will be flowing out of this Plaza and not to
mention the amount of traffic that will start to turn onto Montague from Amity. Montague is a very skinny road
that already has problems just for the neighborhood, so adding even more traffic is a safety concern for our
children who get on and off the bus on that corner every day.
We also believe that this proposed Plaza will affect the value of our homes, we have already had neighbors put
their homes up for sale when they heard that there was a possibility that this Plaza was going to be built. We
want the Tuscany neighborhood to be a place where people want to live and visit, not avoid. Please help us keep
our neighborhood family friendly.
Thank you for your time,
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Katie